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The ever-industrious Italian outfit Milestone is back with Monster Jam Showdown, which is due out on PS5 and PS4 later this year. Pitched as a comprehensive monster truck experience, with 40 rigs included in the base game and more to follow through free and premium add-on packs, the developer is promising to leverage its “technology and expertise [to] deliver an approachable yet rewarding experience”.

Microsoft held its second Xbox Partner Preview event on Wednesday.

Another week means another opportunity for major PS Store discounts, and unsurprisingly Sony’s dropped another 150 savings onto its virtual shopping mall. This time, you can save up to 60 per cent on the Deluxe Edition of Demon Slayer: The Honokami Chronicles, making it just £21.99. You’ll also find Bloodborne’s Game of the Year Edition for just £14.99.

Sony has today confirmed around 900 PlayStation employees — or around eight per cent of its workforce — are being laid off in order to «future ready ourselves to set the business up for what lies ahead». As a result of the downsizing, PlayStation's own London Studio is being closed completely and Firesprite will be reduced in size. The staff reductions will also hit Naughty Dog, Insomniac Games, and Guerrilla Games. Some unannounced games have been cancelled.

Synduality: Echo of Ada is getting a closed beta on PS5, allowing players a chance to pilot armoured mechs to become Drifters and face off against the xenomorphic threat of the Enders after the world was washed away by a poisonous rain known as «The Tears of the New Moon».

Not content with breaking boundaries with its incredible ongoing Negro Leagues mode, MLB The Show 24 will also introduce female ballplayers for the first time in its RPG-inspired Road to the Show. Selecting a lady will trigger a unique storyline where you’re accompanied by your childhood friend and fellow prospective superstar Mia Lewis, and will explore the “camaraderie professional players like Kelsie Whitmore have said is so important to their success on and off the field”.

Update: Sony has officially released the PS5 Slim, which is slowly starting to replace the original model at retail. All the details and links you need have been added below.

There’s been ample incentive to rejoin the fight in Street Fighter 6 recently, as Ed just released as a new playable character. But that’s not all that’s going on with the acclaimed brawler, as a new Fighter Pass is now live, featuring cosmetics and content inspired by Capcom’s side-scrolling superstar, Mega Man.

A PlayStation executive has revealed in a new interview with Game File that the handheld PS Portal device is proving a lot more popular than the company expected. Hiromi Wakai, the VP of production management, explained «demand has continued to exceed our expectations» and so Sony is now focusing its efforts on «shipping more units consistently».

You may have heard about Balatro recently — it's the latest indie sensation currently doing the rounds, and it's truly excellent. The roguelike deckbuilder has you playing poker hands to score points, and using joker cards and other upgrades to amplify those points to potentially stratospheric levels — it's tremendous. However, that basic poker element at its very core appears to be causing some unforeseen problems.

Dragon's Dogma 2 has been given a full rating by the ESRB (the USA's ratings board), confirming that the soon-to-release action RPG is rated 'Mature'. That's not surprising in the least, but it's the game's content description that may raise a few eyebrows, as it reveals some additional details that haven't yet been covered.

A new lawsuit sees many PlayStation players demanding cash payouts from Sony, and the company will now need to defend itself in court after the case was accepted. If the lawsuit is successful, these players could be owed up to £562 (approximately $711) depending on how much PlayStation content they've purchased since August 2016. A main reason for this is the pricing of modern gaming. In recent years, the price of games has increased significantly, with the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X generation seeing the standard edition of AAA titles releasing at approximately $70, with companies citing far greater development budgets as the main reason.